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Wanadoo Offers £14.99 8meg Broadband

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Wanadoo offers £14.99 pounds 8Meg service

Wanadoo’s £14.99 pounds 8Meg service is getting rave reviews. Looking for a fabulous deal on broadband service? Here is one you can’t possibly pass up. Wanadoo Broadband is one of the top three broadband providers in the UK and have released a great deal. It is £14.99 pounds 8Meg service for those who wish to try out broadband service for the first time.

This price is right for most people, and even though the service may be a touch slower than the typical 2 mbps entry point, it is not an issue. For those who have been suffering in silence with dial-up for the past few years, it could be the treat of their lives. Perhaps if prices continue to get more competitive between the three top U.K. broadband providers, those that take advantage of this deal from Wanadoo could upgrade to a faster speed for little or no money per month. This program is also really good for anyone who wants to improve their Internet experience and also for those who run a small business from their home. Even though the bandwidth is only 1 mbps, this speed is still much faster than the typical dial-up service.

Currently, there are plenty of cheap Internet offers out there, and dial-up service is cheaper than anything else. Some providers will give you dial-up service completely free. The catch is that you must be if willing to live with the annoying pop-ups and advertisements that appear while surfing the Internet on your computer.

Wanadoo is nothing like this. They have a solid reputation, at £14.99 pounds, the price may be twice as much as most dial-up services, but it is still considered quite reasonable as far as pricing goes.

If you are looking at broadband service for the first time, this pricing deal and speed entry point can be a great place to begin with broadband service. This is a good option for a business owner, too. Even though later users may need more bandwidth, Wanadoo can provide that as well. This deal is very attractive, and is a nice upgrade from dial up service.

Also included in this deal from Wanadoo, are a free modem, free hookup and free anti-virus protection. You can also find similar deals at other providers like Homecall and BT Broadband, which offer great introductory packages with 2mbps speeds.

As with anything, if you are a first time shopper looking at broadband, it helps to do your research. There are plenty of good providers out there who offer reputable products at good prices. By talking to people who currently use Wanadoo or some other broadband provider, it is a good way to help you find the right one for you.

No matter what you look for a broadband service, the nearly unbelievable price of Wanadoo’s £14.99 pounds per month 8Meg service is one to check out. Maybe if prices do continue to drop and broadband becomes even more affordable, it is still possible that Wanadoo’s deal could be the best deal around for some time.

Robert Michael is the owner of Best Broadband Review which is a great place to find Broadband Links, Resources and Articles. For more information go to: www.bestbroadbandreview.co.uk

Getting The Right Domain Name

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Once you are comfortable with working online, you should buy a domain name for your site or sites. Domain name registration, if you do it right, is one of the key components of having your site rate high in the search engines. The right domain name is memorable, and can get your site to rank higher than other names. The wrong domain name won’t do you any good at all.

The Basics of Domain Name Registration

The first thing you have to do is come up with a good domain name for registration. Don’t even think about a one-word domain name; they’re all gone at this point. Instead, come up with dual-word combos. If you’re putting together a professional site, try your name before anything else.

Don’t get fancy with spelling when selecting your domain name registration, or use 2s and 8s to represent their sounds. You can try the number 1; that sometimes works. You can also try the names of products you offer, or a description of your site content offerings: Romanceforgirls, popcornpalace, fluffykittens. Memorable is always better; short and memorable is best, but very difficult to accomplish.

Come up with a couple of dozen names that will do for your site, and test them on a registry. Don’t buy a domain name for which the .com extension is gone, but you have access to the .net or .info. These domain names are not by any means as valuable as the .com. If you pick up the .com, though, and you expect the site to be lucrative or have a lot of competition, it’s not a bad idea to pick up the other extensions as well. Domain name registration is NOT expensive, and if you register in bulk you can get an even better price.

The .UK Extension

This doesn’t mean you should avoid anything but .com. If you have a business in the United Kingdom, you have access to the .uk domain name set, which UK customers are likely to look at before anything else for UK-specific businesses.

If you anticipate most of your business will come from British customers who are aware your business is in Britain, the .uk extension may be a better choice than the .com; and if your customers are unhappy with Internic’s control of Internet domain registration or they are very pro-Britain, the .uk extension is certainly a better choice.

If you’re fortunate enough to find both extensions for your domain open, and if you run a British company, it doesn’t cost much to buy them both, and you definitely should.

It also gives your online presence an immediate “identity” geographically which can be crucial in building online relationships- where trust is a key component. By being a .UK domain, you are very likely to gain UK clients.

The .UK domains market is one of the fastest growing and lucrative registration areas on the internet.

Tips for Domain Name Registration

Have a website ready to plunk into your domain as soon as you buy it, and submit it immediately to the search engines. The search engines take time to index new sites and your domain name registration is only as valuable as the search engines make it.

You can also have more than one domain name pointing at a single site. If you’ve bought multiple extensions for your domain name (as in the previously-suggested .com/.uk combination), you can set up your site under one domain name and then direct traffic from the others to the main site. This is called web traffic forwarding and has been around for years. It may be as simple as parking your domain name on a server and putting a line of code on the page, or as complex as going through another website to use their online web forwarding services.

When you do register a domain and start building traffic to it, go out and renew for multiple years before your renewal is due. It is surprisingly easy to forget to register your domain name on time, and if someone else sneaks in and registers it, you’ve just lost a ton of work on that domain.

By making your domain name memorable, you will help other webmasters remember your site easily when building anchor texts in their links- a crucial component of SEO.

Final tip: don’t just think about price when looking for a domain registration company- also think about quality of service. While you shouldn’t be paying over the odds, it really is better to be safe than sorry and go with the more established registrars. Then you can have peace of mind that should any problems arise, you will be well looked after.

Resell rights guide

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Companies earlier were already providing softwares and scripts with resell right condition but ever since the source code blowout hit the market, every reseller in the market has jumped into the big bandwagon of selling resell rights products.

Mentioned below are a some of the few things you should check before opting for a Resell right packages. -Who was the original maker of the package. Are you buying from the creator of the package or from third party , dealer or reseller. -How long the website has been in the business of resell software. -What guarantee is available with the purchase. What if the end user faces problem with the product. -What kind of rights you are getting when you make the purchase. You can ask a few questions : -Do you have the rights to give away the entire software/solution free of cost (master resell rights)? -Do you have the rights to resell it as a part of bundled pack ? -Can it be offered as a bonus with some other product of yours? -Do you have the rights to offer resell rights(pass on the rights) to the buyer after you have purchased from the actual seller. -Do you get complete source code or the re-branded version. -If you get the source-code then you must know which language the solution is compiled in : Cgi/Php/Vb/VC++/Dot net/Asp.

The hottest products for resell rights as of today are S.E.O products and internet marketing applications or security products. You can make a lot of money with resell rights of these softwares and scripts but you have to keep the above points in mind always.

Regards, Jimmy Thakkar (Resell rights for Search engine optimization and Internet Apps)

Social software? Check out Google Map mash-ups.

Monday, June 8th, 2009

I asked a colleague from work today if he had any news about new Internet phenomena that would be cool to check out. He told me about the concept of social software. Social software is where someone takes an existing computer program and combines it with another idea to make it more personalized for people. A perfect example of this comes in the form of a new craze taking over the world: Google Map mash-ups. http://maps.google.com/ is already a cool site that has taken a personalized approach to many different ways of helping people. For example, I typed in ‘Pizza restaurants’ into the finder with the name of the town my father lives in near Atlanta, Georgia, USA and it showed me exactly where all the pizzas were, the names of the restaurants, and contact details (if I wished to place an order over the phone). Pretty cool. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Other people around the world have taken the Google Map software and combined it with their personal interests to create a whole array of exciting maps filled with photos and information. The ultimate site to check some out is http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/.

Let me give you an idea of what people are doing out there on the Internet to make the world a more informed place. I’m planning on going to live in Japan pretty soon. Well at http://www.bento.com/tokyofood.html I could find a map of the Kansai region (where I will probably live) which showed me exactly where all the vegetarian restaurants are, the type of cultural food each was (E.g.: Sri Lankan), a photo of the establishment, as well as all the relevant information-including reviews. You can tell I’m a connoisseur, or at least I attempt to be one. Let’s go elsewhere.

The http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ site has map categories like current events, transportation, weather, wireless and mobile, housing and real estate, business, stats and demographics, employment, recreation and fitness, events and sport, travel and tourism, and even maps of crime and sex offenders-that’s a little weird for me, but some people obviously are keen to keep their families safe at all costs. There is also Google map games that people have created, and you can download tools to create a map of your own.

At http://www.pintsearch.com/ you can see a map with some pictures of the best pubs in London. Under current events, and you know how ‘positive’ current events are, at http://www.futurecrisis.com/places/view.php you can see a map with all of the places where avian flu outbreaks have occurred. At http://www.housingmaps.com/ you can look at a map of the USA and click on houses for sale in a city you’d like to go to. You get the house’s address, cost, and many of them have photos as well.

There’s a lot of this kind of thing in America, but the craze is spreading to other countries too. http://www.mackers.com/projects/dartmaps/ is a site that shows you all of the trains in Dublin, Ireland, their destination, and where they are on their route (in approximate real-time). http://www.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/gtatraffic.html?xml=traf ficcams.xml is a site link that takes you to a map where you can click on hundreds of traffic cameras around Toronto, Canada to actually see real photos of current traffic conditions in a specific area. http://www.freefoto.com/ is a cool site to see and download professional photos taken in different locations around the world. I had a quick look at the game called http://www.googleearthing.com/ where you are asked to find certain images around our whole planet. It doesn’t look easy!

The list of links related to this single new form of social software on http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ is very impressive. I’m interested in finding out about other forms of combined software that could help humanity in a social context. My friend mentioned that he’d read an article about a proposed travel site that would rate the relevance of user’s comments in relation to your own personal statistics. For example, if your are a 20 year old male, a 60 year old woman’s remarks about a hotel will be rated as of less importance compared with another person who falls into a similar social category to yourself.

This is an interesting and exciting craze. I can see clearly how these specific idea-based maps will be able to help humanity in so many ways. However, all things in life are balanced so we do have to draw a line sometimes. Another friend at work told me a story about an angry mob that stood waiting outside a house that an Internet sex offenders’ site informed them of a predator in their local neighborhood. The thing is the site hadn’t been updated when the ex-convict had moved from the house, so an innocent person had their house picketed for something that was totally unrelated to them. On the positive side of the coin, I do think that the possible future innovations even in this one area of Internet-mapping could in itself have awesome results for human society.

Bandwidth Monitoring

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Why should I monitor my bandwidth I hear you say and exactly what is bandwidth monitoring anyway? Ok. I shall explain why we should keep an eye on our bandwidth along with what information we are looking for whilst monitoring. You see a bandwidth monitor can give you the figures, the transfer data rate and many more details such as which programs on your computer are connecting to the internet. Actually only Bandwidth Vista does show you which country you are connected to but the idea of monitoring your bandwidth remains.

Take a look at your bandwidth monitor software program and then connect to your
favourite download website. Now take a look at the top speed between you and the
remote computer. Keep all other connections closed whilst doing this. The top speed
of data transfers, both upload and download makes up your complete bandwidth usage
on this transaction. This is an accurate way of testing your bandwidth to a specific
location in the world. For instance if you know which country you are connected to
then you can quickly work out the speed between your computer and another computer within
certain boundaries. Another aspect of bandwidth monitoring is to watch for cost! Yes
a lot of users are paying per MB for bandwidth, in fact we all are in a way. Our ISP
does have a cap on how much bandwidth can be used. We rarely encounter problems
however if the ISP is large enough to flex the line, allowing all users to use as
much as they like – to a point anyway. There are many people paying a monthly
bandwidth cost, whether it is for their internet connection or for their web
hosting, bandwidth is a big issue. The general home user can still make use of a
good bandwidth monitor however. For very simple tasks like selecting fastest download servers.

The home computer user should remember that there are also security issues that can be addressed by using a bandwidth monitor. For instance the best bandwidth monitors will alert you to which program has connected to the internet. No point having all those facts and figures if you don’t even know which program is doing the damage! If you know which programs are connected to the internet and how much bandwidth they are using then you can make wise decisions as to which programs are allowed access.

James Jenkins
http://www.tamarsolutions.co.uk

Is A Fractional T1 The Better Choice For Your Business?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

In your search for just the right bandwidth for your business application(s) there will be much to consider. Budget and reliability being the two primary decision factors. With these in mind you need to consider a fractional t1 line. Why not get all the advantages of T1 even if you are not able to pay for a full T1?

For many people the biggest factors in their decision is reliability and if reliability is critical to the applications you run over your connection you should seriously consider replacing your DSL connection with a fractional T1. DSL is a quick and cost effective method of acquiring high speed bandwidth however it is not intended to support commercial applications or large numbers of users as are T1 connections.

One drawback to fractional T1 service is the price. Even though you won’t have a full T1 you will be paying quite a bit more than you did for your DSL connection. This is due to the structure of T1 pricing. A T1 connection is established by providing a “loop” or wire from the user’s premises to the CO where the service provider has equipment. Part of the cost of a T1 is the “loop charge” or the monthly rental fee for the wire that is rented from the local phone company. Once the connection reaches the CO it can access the carriers network and reach any destination. This loop is paid in full whether you use a fraction of the available bandwidth or the full 1.5Mbps and therefore your price for a 768Kbps fractional T1 connection will never be half the price of a 1.5mbps full T1 connection.

Although the price reduction is not what you might expect it to be, this may put a T1 in your budget and be a great way to get dedicated service into your building. Once you have fractional service upgrading to full service whenever you wish is easy. Fractional service typically comes in 256Kbps increments from 256Kbps all the way to a full T1 at 1.5Mbps. Find the service that’s right for you, but if you are supporting critical services think reliability. Reliability becomes critical when customers or employees depend on your connection for immediate responses. If your customers use your connection to access your databases or your server or the internet then reliability of your connection is critical. If your employees depend on your connections because you host the e-mail server in house or host web servers or ASP type products, your connections is considered critical. A critical connection can be viewed much like a lifeline, without which your business would be negatively impacted.

The message is clear. You can indeed upgrade from a business DSL and get the reliability and functionality of a T1 line without the price. This decision can be done smartly…and cost effectively….via choice of a fractional T1.

Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications….including DS3-Bandwidth.com and Business-VoIP-Solution.com. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you’re always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, insights, and ramblings for the masses.

Linux for the Corporate Users

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

In last couple of years Linux has established itself very well in the server market.However, when it comes to desktops most people still prefer other operating systems over linux. This article talks about the various advantages of linux as a desktop and specifically talks about Linux as a desktop for developers and system administrators. Unlike other advocacy articles, no stress would be given to the fact that linux is free. Neither does this article try to bash other operating systems such as M$ Windoze. All operating systems have their benefits and we must appreciate the developers who have developed an entire OS. It is not a very easy task to develop an OS. All developers have the right to ask for money for the work they do. They also have the right to keep the code with them.

Lesser resource usage. With the costs of hardware going cheaper by the day this is one feature not many individuals are bothered about. It common practice to change a computer every 10-12 months. In corporates where the number of boxes are large, this can become a considerable overhead. Each extra month with the same box means more savings. In our organization for example we were able to increase the average life of a computer from 9-10 months to 14-18 months.

How does linux help in increasing the life of a computer? Most operating systems bring out a major update every 2 years. And linux is no exception. And with each new update comes in a lot of new features and unfortunately a higher bloat value. This bloat makes the new Operating system slower on the present hardware, leading to a hardware upgrade. With Linux too, all major distros update regularly and make the operating system more bloated. However, this is where one of the biggest benefits of open source comes in. We have access to the code. For a desktop, recompiling the kernel, X-windows and the desktop environment (KDE, Gnome) can do wonders. One can recompile the code for the specific processor, video card etc. This optimizes the OS to run on the specific hardware. This also, allows us to remove support for all hardware which we do not have. It reduces the bloat to a large extent. If Windows was free code it would have had the same advantage. Unfortunately it does not have that benefit so we would have to continue to run Windows which supports hardware that we do not have.
Most operating systems work from 80386 onwards. This means that they do not take the specific advantages of the newer processors because they have to make the system backward compatible. Thus a newer hardware just means 386 instructions executed at a faster speed. When we compile a program specifically for a processor it uses most of the instructions of the processor which make it faster. For example, the newer processors come with instructions for multimedia apps etc. (MMX). This considerably increases the processing speeds of multimedia apps.

Linux has also proven to be a robust, stable, reliable and secure operating system. This means that linux is not affected by worms, spy ware, virus etc. which has turned out to be a major problem for most Windoze users in the corporate world these days. The worst a person can do is spend most of his time in the office reinstalling the OS after his computer is effected by a virus or a worm. Many useful man hours and money is lost in just reinstalling.Linux too has it share of virus and worms but it can effect only the users files not the entire system. Given below is an portion of wonderful blog on this subject.

Any program on a Linux box, viruses included, can only do what the user who ran it can do. Real users aren’t allowed to hurt the system (only the root user can), so neither can programs they run. Because of the distinction between privileged (root-run) processes and user-owned processes, a “hostile” executable that a non-root user receives (or creates) and then executes (runs) cannot “infect” or otherwise manipulate the system as a whole. Just as you can delete only your own files (i.e., those you have “write” permission to), executables you run cannot affect other users’ (or root’s) files. Therefore, although you can create (or retrieve), and then run, a virus, worm, trojan horse, etc., it can’t do much. Unless you do so as “root”. Which it’s simple to avoid doing.

One of the most talked about advantage of Linux is that LINUX IS FREE. That still the number one reason to migrate to Linux for many. Being free means that there is no per user licence for all the software as well. For example, with windows you get a terminal server. But that has a 5 user licence limit. This means that the cost is not of the OS alone. But along with it every application costs. And each time the work environment is duplicated on another machine you spend the same amount of money. With time the software is upgraded and the files from the new applications would not work on the older versions. The users are forced to upgrade. This process can always increase the overall costs the organization has to absorb in. Hence, with most commerical operating systems the cost is never a one time cost.

Linux allows users to create an easy to manage network. Consider this with NFS (network file system), NIS (Network Information system) and DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) one can setup a lovely roaming profile system, where all the user information is stored on the server including his desktop. So the user can technically sit on any computer in the office and get his entire data and desktop. This makes it convinient for the users. And from the administrators point of view they need to manage just the servers to control the entire data backup, maintainance etc. Linux also has a wonderful system to allow remote access. One can use SSH to access the entire system via a text based secure shell or even use X-Windows for those who prefer a GUI to access a system remotely.

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Amarjyoti is a Computer Engineer based in India and has over 7 years of experience in the hosting industry. He has spoken and written extensively on the subject. His articles have been published both online as well as in print in magazines.

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Free ISP?

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Yes, there is such a thing as a free ISP or internet service provider. An internet service provider is a company that provides internet access, usually for a nominal fee. However, you might be surprised to find that there are Free ISP’s. If you are wondering if I am referring to the discs you receive in the mail that offer you free internet for 30 days, think again. The ISP’s I am talking about are not offering just a free trial.

So, how are these ISP’s able to offer free internet access? The answer to that will not come as a surprise. In fact, advertising is the funding source behind many free products. For instance, you can find many sites offering free MP3 downloads. However, just like the free ISP’s, these sites come with a great number of pop-up advertisements. In fact, these pop-ups can be so numerous on free internet connections offered by these ISP’s that it can become a real nuisance. It may even stall your computer and make it difficult and frustrating to surf the net.

Additionally, these free ISP’s may not offer internet, or free internet, in your area. If there is not a dialup number in your area, you may have to go without. These ISP’s may also limit the amount of time you can spend surfing the net. The amount of features that commercial ISP’s include may be lost when going with a free ISP. Most ISP’s that charge for their services are constantly coming up with new features. This is not the case with ISP’s that offer free internet services. Free ISP’s may also provide a poor quality connection with more interruptions that commercial ISP’s.

If you are looking for an ISP that is a step up from the free ISP’s, the answer might be right in front of you. You see, a lot of ISP’s that offer free internet services also have a premium package available for a low cost. In fact, offering free internet access can be a way for these ISP’s to attract customers. Once a customer sees that they enjoy using the ISP, they may decide to purchase unlimited access from them rather than their competitors.

Before accepting the terms and conditions of your ISP, always be sure you have read and understand every thing. When you are agreeing to free internet access you want to make especially sure that your ISP is truly offering the free internet access you think they are. You also want to make sure you know how much your internet time is limited to, if that is the case. You also want to look for any additional charges or long distance charges that may apply for your ISP.

About The Author:

Neil Shevlin is the owner of UK Cheap Broadband which is a great place to find broadband links, resources and articles.

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Make Your Communication Come Alive

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Design and layout can make your communication come alive and your
message immediately apparent. Now, with so much technology at hand, design becomes much easier, but you must develop the ability to plan and visualize what you want to convey. Then decide what will appeal to your readers and help them understand the material.

Plan to use spacing, underling, indenting, numbering, and different sizes and
types of lettering to make your message more visually appealing and
understandable. Learn to think in terms of text formats that set off paragraphs; typefaces to denote sections; use of graphs and colors; drawings, flowcharts, and lists that promote your massage and reinforce it to your readers.

Think about your content, know your readers and decide what, precisely, they need to know. Decide what you want to emphasize, and how you will create special displays.

Examine your text for ways to make it visually more appealing. Use white space to create the impression that your communication is easy to read and create tables to display large important groups of data.

Here are four guidelines to aid you in designing graphics that are understandable at a glance:

1. Reduce graphics to their simplest, clearest elements.

2. Use complete titles that answer the who, what, why, when, where, and how questions.

3. Locate graphics near the related text.

4. Make graphics appropriate to their contents in size and arrangement.

Remember that graphics supplement your written message; they don’t replace it.

The last thing you will need to do is pay special attention to the layout of text and images. The eye focuses first on the upper outside corner of a left-hand page and the lower outside corner of a right-hand page.

And above all, tests read your communication and make any necessary changes.

By following these guidelines for design and layout, you will be able to make any communication come alive. And in today’s world of technology, desktop publishing and computer capabilities create many possibilities.

Anthony Bush is a freelance writer; publish poet, and owner of Legacy eJournal. To read more articles by Anthony and get FREE tips on how-to write visit http://www.legacyejournal.com

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Web Hosting Common Mistakes

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

In the course of doing business, we serve many customers. Likewise, in doing business, we will also be plagued by different problems.

Following is a list of the common mistakes that different web hosts tend to commit.

1. Falling For The Price Trap
A website price at a very low rate will generally provide extremely slow site or common services will be denied because the bandwidth was maximized. Use your instincts and avoid low-priced websites.

2. Lack of Reseller Research
Reseller hosting is not bad. As a matter of fact, good support is provided by resellers. However, it will be safe to research your reseller. They may offer good packages but they may be inexperienced in other aspects of web hosting. A good reseller must know their products inside and out.

3. No Clear Definition of Web Site Requirements
List down the resources that your web site will need and add more as you begin to expand. This facilitates everything when an upgrade of your website is needed as you can simply discuss them with your host.

4. Purchasing Hosting In An Auction
Auctioned hosting, to say the least, is not unreliable as it may seem. However, these hosts have a great deal of terms and conditions which are usually more than what that regular websites would offer. As a result, inflexibility of the package may be experienced.

5. Forgiving A Host’s Bad Or Limited Website
Host that do not develop their own informative sites are unlikely to spend time developing informational site for your website.

6. Putting All The Eggs In One Basket
Putting several sites in a single account may seem like a good deal. This does not hold true most of the time. When you site is income-generating, it may not be wise to interconnect them. Chances are when all your sites breakdown, your income will be lost. Try to work out with your host about how to spread out the connection of your sites.

7. Taking Testimonials At Face Value
Not all testimonials are similar or true for customers. Ask the host if they have a contact of their customers and if you can talk to them. If the host does not want you to do this, that is a danger sign.

8. Not Keeping A Record Of Their Contact Information
Keeping track of telephone numbers, addresses, contact persons or e-mail addresses is important. When a problem occurs in your site or when the system goes down, you can easily talk to the customer service to troubleshoot the problem for you.

9. Relying On Host Backups
It is advisable to keep a back-up copy of your website. This is critical in times of emergency.

10. Trusting your host to have the latest software
Viruses and computer hackers can strike anytime. It is always safe to check the software versions that you are planning to purchase from your host. Make sure that it is always updated.

Michael Colucci is a writer for $2.99 Hosting and Low Interest Credit Cards

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